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The gender of things : how epistemic and technological objects become gendered / edited by Maria Rentetzi.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex role.
- Material culture.
- Language and languages--Sex differences.
- Language and languages.
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Gender.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Sociolinguistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 233 pages) : illustrations (black and white.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
- Contents:
- Sealing wax and string / Donald L. Opitz
- Butter : fat lions and dairy girls / Anna Frasca-Rath
- Gendered images of chromosomes / María Jesús Santesmases
- Godofredo and Françoise travel around the world : phantoms, radioiodine uptake tests, and the IAEA's standardization projects / Maria Rentetzi
- The tell-tale heart : multiple ontologies of the first human donor heart / Annerose Böhrer and Larissa Pfaller
- Colourful minilabs : cosmeceuticals at the interface of gender, technology, and knowledge transfers / Milton Fernando Gonzalez Rodriguez
- Gendered mobility : early motor scooting around 1920 / Heike Weber
- A make-up kit from the National Air and Space Museum / Eleanor S. Armstrong
- The fan : gendered bodily communication at the intersection of salon semiotics, fashion, political campaigning, and menopause relief / Annette Keilhauer
- Gendering the boundary object : "Sophia the Robot" as cyborg-woman, fashionista, citizen, and imagination / Roger A. Søraa and Nienke Bruijning
- Animating machines, alienating women : Siri and Alexa as affective linguistic labourers / Siri Lamoureaux and Alexa Hagerty
- Dangerous erections : gender, race, and the engineering of Trump's border wall / Amy E. Slaton
- Paternity and pedigree : how academic genealogical databases become gendered / Rebecca M. Herzig
- Is the scrum board feminine? / Stefan Sauer and Amelie Tihlarik.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lisa Beth Deutsch Memorial Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781003379225 (electronic bk.)
- 1003379222 (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 40032212824
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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